Published Tributes
American Family Therapy Association, Inc. (AFTA) Newsletter
Thank you to The American Family Therapy Association for permission to reproduce and post the newsletter, and to Joanne Bowen for making the document available.
Thank you to The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for permission to reproduce and post the newsletter, and to Joanne Bowen for making the document available.
Articles
This is a partial bibliography of articles and chapters that have drawn on the L. Murray Bowen Collection at NLM. If you are aware of others, please contact us with that information.
In the years since his death, several of Dr. Bowen’s unpublished papers, part of his archives, have been published in the Family Systems Journal.
Bourne, G. Mary, compiler and ed. (2010). Misunderstandings from the Family Field. "A Training Session by Dr. Murray Bowen at the Minnesota Institute of Family Dynamics." Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory. Ona Cohn Bregman and Charles M. White, Eds. New York and London: Routledge.
Bourne, G. Mary, compiler and ed. (2010). A Science of Human Behavior, "A Training Session by Dr. Murray Bowen at the Minnesota Institute of Family Dynamics." Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory. Ona Cohn Bregman and Charles M. White, Eds. New York and London: Routledge.
Bourne, G. Mary, compiler and ed. (2010). Various Theoretical Points People Miss. "A Training Session by Dr. Murray Bowen at the Minnesota Institute of Family Dynamics." Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory. Ona Cohn Bregman and Charles M. White, Eds. New York and London: Routledge.
Butler, John F., Ph.D. (2011). Bowen’s NIMH Family Study Project and the Origins of Family Psychotherapy. Family Systems Journal 8(2): 135-142.
Butler, John F., Ph.D (2013). Family Psychotherapy: The First Evolutionary Stage During the NIMH Family Study Project. Family Systems Journal 10(1): 29-42.
Dysinger, Robert H. M.D. (2003). The “Action Dialogue” in an Intense Relationship: The Study of a Schizophrenic Girl and her Mother. Family Systems Journal 6(2): 117-134.
Rakow, Catherine (1994). Bowen Archives in the NIMH Papers: A Personal Report. Family Center Report (A publication of the Georgetown Family Center) 15(3).
Rakow, Catherine (2013). Analyzing observational data from Bowen’s NIMH Project. Family Systems Forum 15(3).
Rakow, Catherine (2016). Learning from the Nurses’ Notes for Bowen’s 1954-1959 NIMH Project: A Window into the Development of Theory. Family Systems Forum 11(2).
Rakow, C. (2018). Chapter 8: “Death as a Catalyst for Reconstructing the Family Emotional System “, in Death and Chronic Illness in the Family: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives by Peter Titelman (Editor), Sydney K. Reed (Editor); Routledge
Rakow, C. (2022). “The Back Story on Developing the Concept of Differentiation, As Seen in the Murray Bowen Archives”, Family Systems Journal, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 101-132
Rakow, C. (2022). “The Importance of the Murray Bowen Archives”, Family Systems Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2022
Rakow, C. (2022). Making Sense of Human Life, Murray Bowen’s Determined Effort Toward Family Systems Theory. Routledge: New York
Dissertations
Baege, Monika (2005). Family Process Influences on the Resilient Responses of Youth, Ed.D. dissertation, University of Vermont. Abstract
Weinstein, Deborah F. (2013). The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. View through ProQuest